including the economy, including his contention that merry christmas is under siege no more, including trade immigration, the supreme court, voter id, and shopping for food. we believe that only american citizens should vote in american elections. which is why the time has come for voter id, like everything else. voter id. and if you go out and you want the buy groceries, you need a picture on a card. you need id. you go out and you want to buy anything, you need id, and you need your picture. in this country, the only time you don t need it in many cases is when you want to vote for a president, when you want to vote for a senator, when you want to vote for a governor or a congressman. it s crazy. that was the kind of thing tonight, and during the rally, the president also heaped praise
voter id, and shopping for food. we believe that only american citizens should vote in american elections. which is why the time has come for voter id, like everything else. voter id. and if you go out and you want the buy groceries, you need a picture on a card. you need id. you go out and you want to buy anything, you need id, and you need your picture. in this country, the only time you don t need it in many cases is when you want to vote for a president, when you want to vote for a senator, when you want to vote for a governor or a congressman. it s crazy. that was the kind of thing tonight, and during the rally, the president also heaped praise on republican congressman ron desantis who is running in florida s gubernatorial primary.
your husband is deployed overseas, so how is your family being impacted? well, when we got to talk on face time this morning, this was a big conversation piece for us, moving some money around in the event that he didn t get paid, what we would do to pay our own bills. and i know that s something that we re hearing from our families across the country. how they re going to pay their mortgages, their car payments, buy groceries, buy diapers. it s a very important situation and one that our families have our military our service members that are deployed don t need to be thinking about. they need to be focused on their mission at hand and you don t want them wondering if they will get paid or having their spouses call them worried about their bank accounts. let me ask you this, how much do you really feel that maybe military families are kind of, you know, caught in the middle of this, as like a political football or a pawn going on between republicans and democrats. you know,
again, just to put a human face on it, my dad worked for lockheed. he was unemployed from 73 to middle of 74. and i ll tell you what, those unemployment benefits, every week, he always said, it puts helps us fill the tank and helps us buy groceries. keeps people barely being on the brink. no wonder people are wild. the whole tea party movement is fueled by this kind of giant disconnect, a sense that unless people are going to do something for themselves, they can t who s going to fend for them? they just feel they have to get together and just scream. which is really all that s happening right now. do you think part of it is bunning s behavior in this is that guys like bunning, they know they can depend on the decorum of the united states senate, that nobody on the floor is going to call them out. if you do it in a factory, if you do it in a public school, you know, something like this, i mean, your coworkers would call you up and say hey, what are you